Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among the seven purchasers who have been running the business since the brothers retired five years ago, are two more Underwoods, each a vice president: C. Thomas, son of Elmer; E. Roy, son of Bert. The other new owners are President Ben D. Jennings, Laurence E. Rubel, Artist-Illustrator Lejaren 'a Killer, M. D. Behrend, Leo G. Hessler...
...traceable to paintings contracted for through a dealer, the dealer receives full commission. During the second year the dealer's commission on reorders shall be four-fifths of the original rate; in the third year, three-fifths ; in the fourth, two-fifths; after that, nothing. If misunderstandings arise, artist and dealer will submit their case to arbitration. The pact recommends, does not stipulate, that the art dealer's commission shall vary "with the prominence and reputation of the artist and may range from 20% to 50%. For ordinary transactions, 33⅓% is recommended." (Famed: artists pay less commission...
...artists took note of an item of legal news last week, put it away for future reference. Portrait Painters Gallery, Inc. of Manhattan has long had an oral agreement with Artist Howard Chandler Christy whereby the gallery sent him customers, he to charge sitters a minimum of $4,500 for an oil, the gallery to receive a commission of $1,500. To him months ago they sent a woman client. He charged her $2,500, paid the gallery nothing. On two counts the gallery sued: 1) for the unpaid commission; 2) for $100,000 injury to the gallery...
...such prodigious task confronts him [Ruggiero] as the one imposed on Hofmann, who, while touring America gave 50 public concerts in two and a half months. . . . May not a career of concert giving, extended over a period of years, produce a loss of freshness and spontaneity in the young artist? He may become jaded with adulation and sigh, like Alexander...
...Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that lie would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood. Friends repeated the threat to the artist. When the Duke arrived unexpectedly at Goya's studio the next day he found his wife lightly but sufficiently clad in flimsy trousers, toreador's jacket, posing for another picture which sly Goya had stayed up all night to paint. Both pictures now hang side by side in the Seville gallery...